GNU bug report logs - #72830
Big rectangular selections are slow

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: juri <at> linkov.net, Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>, 72830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#72830: Big rectangular selections are slow
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:44:22 +0800

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> One data point from me: When I foll the recipe and then insert the
> current primary selection into a different Emacs instance, I get a
> column of 2500 "x"s inserted.  The recipe had 200,000 lines of "x"s.
> That means, at least using my settings, what Emacs does in this extreme
> case seems to be a waste of time because 99% of the selection is thrown
> away by X or whatever.

This must be isolated to rectangular selections.
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